# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [March 25, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659 "2023-03-25T23:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/481 "2023-04-17T17:23:26Z")
And yet I managed to find one and make my four a five. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/482 "2023-04-17T17:30:03Z")
That’s a skill that I’ve developed too. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/483 "2023-04-17T21:15:33Z")
> **Wordle 667 3/6\* 4/17/2023** > > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > D_W_ELT β†’ That’s an odd pickup. Well… I’d like to try something with A & I, but the only word I can think of with those and a W is… > **W** A **IF** S β†’ OK. WRIF?/WUIF?/WOIF? go nowhere… I could put an H in there, but I’d have to double the F… so… > _WHIFF_\* > > This was one of those days where the key letter carried over from the previous day’s solution, making it a lot easier for me than the average. Plus, the second key letter was in my second guess. Today, I was the windshield. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/484 "2023-04-17T21:18:15Z")
I’ll take my 4 today and be damn glad for it. Wordle 667 4/6\* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SPOIL CHINK WHIFF Tricky little word. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/485 "2023-04-17T23:20:40Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Today, I was the windshield. Today, you were also the Louisville Slugger. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/486 "2023-04-18T00:00:56Z")
> [@chiliwillybing](#): > > I didn’t even know whizz was a word. β€œI gotta go take a whizz” - common slang expression, among guys, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/487 "2023-04-18T01:02:45Z")
Wordle 666 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE NEIGH DWELL DWELT For guess 3, I was stumped for a long time. Few options occurred. Was going to go with TWEET; time went by while I did other things and for some reason DWELL seemed more likely. Maybe I was unconsciously spoiled somewhere. Wordle 667 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROAST EQUIP WHICH WHIFF This was a fast par due to having ONLY I as a vowel; trying some WH words was a natural first resort. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/488 "2023-04-18T01:46:36Z")
Wordle 667 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCORE PLAIN FIGHT WHIFF Glad I didn’t get whiffed on this one. Guesses 1 and 2 had me worried. ---
**Author:** ![SeaSun](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seasun/32/14820_2.png) [@SeaSun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaSun)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/489 "2023-04-18T02:04:48Z")
**Wordle 667 4/6** ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPACE ROUGH THINK WHIFF After Rough, I only could see Hilly, Think, and Whiff. I wanted to play Whiff, as I could totally see that one getting tossed up, but I resisted…and then kicked myself when I saw it was indeed Whiff. Ah well, 4 it is. * * * * * * I played my **400th game** yesterday > **For those who are interested in the stats:** > > **1 = 1** (got spoiled…doesn’t count) > **2 = 21** > **3 = 122** > **4 = 164** (not including today’s 4) > **5 = 67** > **6 = 22** > **Fails = 3** > > **Guess Averages per each 100 Games:** > > 1st 100 = 3.86 > 2nd 100 = 3.99 > 3rd 100 = 3.73 > 4th 100 = 3.73 > **400 Games Average = 3.83** > > I’ll take that small improvement the last 200 games. This is, of course, mostly a game of luck and chance vs. there being a β€œbest strategy” (other than the usual playing of commons early on), but it’s still interesting to break it all down and see the numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/490 "2023-04-18T02:08:03Z")
Wordle 667 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 PATIO RISEN QUICK WHIFF Almost forgot to play today. Weird to have zero consonants in the first three words (though not as weird as @EllisDee’s game today!). Took me _forever_ to come up with a word with I in the middle and four letters I hadn’t used yet. Tough one, and it looks like I’m not the only one who thought so. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/491 "2023-04-18T04:24:12Z")
Wordle 668 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHONE HOUND This took me an embarrassingly long time. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/492 "2023-04-18T04:28:33Z")
Wordle 668 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT CRONE HIMBO HOUND After 2 the \_OUND trap was pretty obvious. So I cheated twice: First I bailed on hard mode rules completely, and second I used an anagram solver to come up with a word that contained BHMW along with any single vowel. Closest I could find was himbo and whamo, so I went with himbo to also check I just in case it wasn’t an \_ound word. Technically I kind of cheated three times by checking which variations had already been answers: found and sound. Plus my first two words eliminated pound and round, so I didn’t bother to look for those in the previous answers list. (Not the greatest showing by plant eliminating letters in this trap. That’s the entire reason I use plant as my opener, to use up trap letters before hard mode kicks in. Only hit one of them.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/493 "2023-04-18T04:34:38Z")
Wordle 668 5/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE POINT ROWNS FOHNS HOUND Is it okay that I was tossing letters out there with no clue as to whether they’d form bona fide words? Because that’s how I got out of the \_OUND trap. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/494 "2023-04-18T06:40:59Z")
Wordle 668 X/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLAIM PROVE WOUND FOUND SOUND BOUND 😑 😑 😑 😑 😑 😑 😑 😑 ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/495 "2023-04-18T07:01:30Z")
Wordle 668 X/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 STARE MOUND BOUND POUND WOUND FOUND Second loss, same guessing game ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/496 "2023-04-18T07:09:52Z")
Wordle 668 3/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEAUT POUCH HOUND ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/497 "2023-04-18T08:27:13Z")
Wordle 668 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE MINOR PHONY HOUND Really lucky to get the H so as not to get bogged down in the \*OUNDs… FWIW, Scoredle accepts defeat on this one. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/498 "2023-04-18T09:29:39Z")
Wordle 668 5/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned} More \_OUND misery. And it could’ve been worse ! ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/499 "2023-04-18T10:45:34Z")
Wordlebot today x/6! First time ever? Wordle 668 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Call it a two😜 > **Summary** > > Craft > Siege > Phony > Hound ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/500 "2023-04-18T11:51:24Z")
Wordle 668 X/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ☹ The trap claims another victim. AIERY SPOUT MOUND POUND FOUND WOUND [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=26)